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Processing Data, for Improved Accuracy, from a Device for Measuring Speed of Sound in a Gas: 7,107,851

Abstract: 

A method, used in connection with a pulse-echo type sensor for determining the speed of sound in a gas, for improving the accuracy of speed of sound measurements. The sensor operates on the principle that speed of sound can be derived from the difference between the two-way travel time of signals reflected from two different target faces of the sensor. This time difference is derived by computing the cross correlation between the two reflections. The cross correlation function may be fitted to a parabola whose vertex represents the optimum time coordinate of the coherence peak, thereby providing an accurate measure of the two-way time diffference.

Patent Number: 
7,107,851
Date Of Issue: 
09/18/2006
Inventors: 

Thomas E. Owen